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'Masterstroke: a pilot group stroke prevention program for community dwelling stroke survivors'.
Conclusions: Participation in the Masterstroke program for community dwelling stroke survivors resulted in significant improvements in knowledge, functional balance, dietary behaviours and quality of life. Qualitative interviews support the participants' implementation of lifestyle changes essential for reducing risks of secondary stroke. Results support the utilisation of this model and warrants rigorous investigation regarding long-term impacts of an education and exercise program on community dwelling stroke survivors. [Box: see text]. PMID: 23641954 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Disability and Rehabilitation - May 26, 2013 Category: Rehabilitation Authors: White JH, Bynon BL, Marquez J, Sweetapple A, Pollack M Tags: Disabil Rehabil Source Type: research

"Living in a foreign country": experiences of staff-patient communication in inpatient stroke settings for people with post-stroke aphasia and those supporting them.
CONCLUSIONS: Communication was viewed as important but challenging by all three groups. To maximise staff-patient interactions in the future, attention needs to be paid to: the psychosocial needs of stroke survivors and their carers, ongoing staff training and support for the healthcare professionals supporting them, and the provision of an aphasia-friendly and a communicatively stimulating ward environment. Implications for Rehabilitation Effective staff-patient communication is viewed as fundamental to stroke rehabilitation but challenging by patients with aphasia, their carers and the healthcare professionals supporting...
Source: Disability and Rehabilitation - September 27, 2018 Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Clancy L, Povey R, Rodham K Tags: Disabil Rehabil Source Type: research

Systematic review of subjective memory measures to inform assessing memory limitations after stroke and stroke-related aphasia.
Conclusions: This literature domain currently provides an unclear picture as to how memory limitations affect participation in stroke and stroke-related aphasia. IMPLICATIONS FOR REHABILITATION A broad range of subjective memory measures have been used to determine stroke survivors' perceptions of their everyday memory issues. Because of psychometric weaknesses such as inadequate reliability and cross-cultural validity among subjective memory measures, there remains a need to carefully review a given measure's properties to determine if it is appropriate for use with a given stroke survivor. Stroke survivors with aphasia h...
Source: Disability and Rehabilitation - September 26, 2019 Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Salis C, Murray L, Vonk JMJ Tags: Disabil Rehabil Source Type: research

The relevance of stroke care for living well with post-stroke aphasia: a qualitative interview study with working-aged adults.
CONCLUSIONS: The results highlight a need for equitable, transparent, responsive access to services, information and stroke liaison support. The findings extend knowledge of the importance of stroke care for supporting working-aged adults and their families to live well in the context of aphasia. Implications for rehabilitation There is a need for equitable, transparent access to a responsive integrated pathway of stroke care to support living well with aphasia. People with aphasia post-stroke and their families need access to person-centred stroke care and information responsive to their changing needs at all stages of re...
Source: Disability and Rehabilitation - December 28, 2020 Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Manning M, MacFarlane A, Hickey A, Galvin R, Franklin S Tags: Disabil Rehabil Source Type: research

Stroke health professionals' management of depression after post-stroke aphasia: a qualitative study.
Conclusion: This study demonstrates that health professionals are challenged by and limited in managing depression after post-stroke aphasia. Health professionals have the opportunity to improve services through the translation of evidence-based interventions. The integration of mental health care into stroke rehabilitation may be achieved through policy development, leadership and specialist training. Implications for rehabilitation People with aphasia need routine mood screening using aphasia-specific clinical tools and communication support. Stroke health professionals report a need for communication partner training to...
Source: Disability and Rehabilitation - June 9, 2019 Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Baker C, Worrall L, Rose M, Ryan B Tags: Disabil Rehabil Source Type: research

Validation of the Stroke and Aphasia Quality of Life Scale in a multicultural population.
Conclusions Both the SAQOL-39 g and SAQOL-CSg demonstrated good reliability and validity. Our results suggested some influence of ethnicity in self-rating of health status in relation to SAQOL-39 g scores. Further research is warranted to examine its use with stroke survivors with greater stroke severity and over time. Implications for Rehabilitation Validation of SAQOL in Singapore: Both the SAQOL-39g and the SAQOL-CSg may be used to measure the HRQoL of stroke survivors with and without aphasia in Singapore. Further investigation is required to examine use with stroke survivors with greater stroke severity and over t...
Source: Disability and Rehabilitation - February 10, 2016 Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Guo YE, Togher L, Power E, Koh GC Tags: Disabil Rehabil Source Type: research

Evidence-based stroke rehabilitation: do priorities for practice change and feasibility of implementation vary across high income, upper and lower-middle income countries?
CONCLUSION: We have identified healthcare providers' priorities for addressing international practice change across socioeconomic regions. By focusing on the most feasible key areas, we can aid the channeling of appropriate resources to bridge the disparities in stroke outcomes across HICs, UMICs and LMICs.IMPLICATIONS FOR REHABILITATIONIt is pertinent to examine the differences in priorities of stroke rehabilitation professionals and the feasibility of implementing evidence-based practice across socioeconomic regions.There is an urgent necessity for the development of clinical practice guidelines for stroke rehabilitation...
Source: Disability and Rehabilitation - April 14, 2021 Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Sanjana Gururaj Marie-Louise Bird Karen Borschmann Janice J Eng Caroline Leigh Watkins Marion F Walker John M Solomon SRRR2 KT working group Source Type: research

"Personal road map for recovery:" examining the therapeutic use of weblogs by stroke survivors with aphasia.
CONCLUSION: Weblog writing was therapeutic for stroke survivors with aphasia. Authors reported benefits across cognitive, psychological, emotional, and social domains. Health professionals should consider recommending weblog writing, journaling, or other methods of writing for stroke survivors with aphasia. Implications for rehabilitation Creating illness weblog posts can be therapeutically beneficial for stroke survivors with aphasia as a tool that addresses psychological, emotional, and social aspects in their recovery. Blogging appeared to offer a medium for stroke survivors with aphasia to practice writing, to express ...
Source: Disability and Rehabilitation - August 31, 2020 Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Carcello K, McLennon S Tags: Disabil Rehabil Source Type: research

Access G-AP: development of an accessible goal setting and action planning resource for stroke survivors with aphasia
CONCLUSIONS: Access G-AP was co-developed to support people with aphasia to access and engage in stroke rehabilitation goal setting. Further research is required to establish the feasibility of Access G-AP in clinical practice.IMPLICATIONS FOR REHABILITATIONEvidence-based accessible formatting strategies and an iterative design process can inform the design of accessible goal setting resources.Accessible goal setting materials should be relevant to stroke survivors with aphasia and responsive to their needs.Rehabilitation staff require training and support to use accessible goal setting resources (like Access G-AP) with st...
Source: Disability and Rehabilitation - June 13, 2022 Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Sophie Eleanor Brown Lesley Scobbie Linda Worrall Ruth Mc Menamin Marian C Brady Source Type: research

Understanding significant others' experience of aphasia and rehabilitation following stroke.
Conclusions: With a greater sensitivity to significant others who focus on the stroke survivor and disregard their own needs, rehabilitation professionals and especially speech-language therapists, can assist families in reestablishing communication and satisfying relationships which are affected because of aphasia. Implications for Rehabilitation This qualitative study shows that significant others of aphasic stroke survivors experience rehabilitation as services focused on the person who had the stroke. Significant others' satisfaction with rehabilitation is not related to the fulfillment of their personal (e.g. resuming...
Source: Disability and Rehabilitation - December 27, 2013 Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Hallé MC, Le Dorze G Tags: Disabil Rehabil Source Type: research

Choral singing therapy following stroke or Parkinson's disease: an exploration of participants' experiences.
CONCLUSIONS: Choral singing was perceived by people with stroke and PD to help them self-manage some of the consequences of their condition, including social isolation, low mood and communication difficulties. Implications for Rehabilitation Choral singing therapy (CST) is sought out by people with stroke and PD to help self-manage symptoms of their condition. Participation is perceived as an enjoyable activity which improves mood, voice and language symptoms. CST may enable access to specialist music therapy and speech language therapy protocols within community frameworks. PMID: 26200449 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Disability and Rehabilitation - July 22, 2015 Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Fogg-Rogers L, Buetow S, Talmage A, McCann CM, Leão SH, Tippett L, Leung J, McPherson KM, Purdy SC Tags: Disabil Rehabil Source Type: research